The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-29

mn Oiu WOHiuh tt ga" oooo, O"hs h"s
sold her property and left tho town
from fear Of ghosts.
ROBERT BRowNING's son "Pen" 10
about to visit this country with his
American BRIDE.
PIGEONS have almost entirely disap-
peared from the streets OF Boston.
where once they were so numerous.
SIR RICHARD TEMPLE. member OF
the English parliament. Is said to be q
living image of the Emperor Napoleon.
THERE is a restaurant in London
where only those eat who are afflicted
with corpulency, the food being entirely
anti-iat.
WILLIAM X. VANDERBILT will spend
Christmas in New York. His voyage
in the Ava will BIZ resumed after the
holidays.
The influence of ''Sunset" Cox must
have been omnipotent ut Constant NC
pie. us the sultan recently delivered his
first poslprandal speech.
THE col0red men OF New Bedford,
Mass., have organized the "Crispus At
tucks club" with the hope OF being CIV
en- permission to join the Nationa!
guard.
The hayward ut Mare island is in
want of brck-masons. The wages are
lirst-class, the men receiving S5. 80 per
day of eight hours on plain brick.
laying
AN old patron of the Fifth Avenue
hotel, New York who has been Is
guest for twenty live years, says that in
that time his lodging and meals have
cost him $40, 600.
BENJAMIN WINGATE, who recently
died near Pennington. N. H., at the
age oil 81. once employed on his farm q
Young man who afterward was well
known as Vice President Henry Wilson
WHEN once asked to contribute some
thing toward the funeral expense of a
baillf who had died in poverty the elder
Dumas inquired the amount requ red.
Twenty francs" sad the sol citor.
''Wlnlp Only 20 francs to bury bail
ifP There, There! Take 40 and bury
two!'
Mrs. JOHN c. DRAPER. of New York
city, has given to Trinity college. Hart
ford. n largo and valuable collection of
photographs on glass, illustrating re-
searches in physics and especially in
the study of tho spectrum, made by
her husband, the late Prof. Draper. of
the University of the City of New
York.
REMENYI, the famous viollnist Is
said to have met his death recently by
drowning in shipwrecK off the coast
of Madagascar He was Hungarian
bv birth, but seldom resided in that
country. most Of HE time having boon
spent in the United States. He was 62
years old. and leaves a family and o
large fortune.
IT Is related that once at Victor
Hugo's house someone remarked that
their hosts name should be given to
that street. mot n street alone" cried
another, "should b. named for Victor
Hugo. but all Pars should DO named
after him." Hugo, who was present,
heard these words and repl ed, THAT
will come in time"
Mrs. URKE.RocHE whose divorce
from her husband is one of the sensa-
1 ons of London Just now, was form
er!v well known in New York ~ Fan
mic Work, daughter Of Frank Work.
the well-known banker and horse
owner. Mrs. Burke-Roche is of tn
dark and stately type Of beauty. Hel
sister married son of Mayor Hewitt
REAR ADMIRAL WoRDEN. hero o
the Monitor aud Mcrrimac fight. Il
living IN Washington. He is 40 yean
of age. but looks younger He has |
yull blonde beard and his hair is not n
white rs his age would warrant Th
wound he received u, the Monitor ant